"Series of well-written articles examines regional poverty and income distribution. Includes separate articles on …

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 12 is the outgrowth of University of Alabama Poverty and Inequality conference … minimum wage. The Formby-Bishop-Kim paper compares the poverty reducing effects of the minimum wage to two alternative poverty …-Kalb-Scutella compare alternative approaches to measuring poverty and inequality in a discrete hours model. …

Traditionally, there have been two strands in the analysis of poverty, inequality and development - a micro strand that … focuses on individual behavior, welfare economics and the measurement of inequality and poverty, and a macro strand that …-behavior determinants of poverty outcomes, economy-wide models in the SAM-CGE tradition and the institutional framework underlying macro …

Main description: Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in … their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the world have led many … economists to seriously question the model of individual economic self-determination when it comes to the poor. In Poverty Traps …